Syringe tray

• US 5,007,535 A
• Filed: 09/26/1989
• Issued: 04/16/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hammer-Lit GmbH
• Original Assignee: Hammer-Lit GmbH
• Inventors: Meseke, Curt T., Winkler, Winfried, Hilbig, Renate
• Primary Examiner(s): FIDEI, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US07/412,813
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 206/364, 206/365, 206/366, 206/370, 206/379, 206/443, 206/477, 206/483, 206/486, 206/562, 206/563, 206/565, 206/459
• US Class Current: 206/366
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/20 Holders specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments drapes with means to hold surgical instruments A61B46/23; for catheters A61M25/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 50/33 Trays
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3215 Tools enabling the cap placement
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/008 Racks for supporting syringes or needles A61M5/001 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3204 Needle cap remover, i.e. devices to dislodge protection cover from needle or needle hub, e.g. deshielding devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3213 Caps placed axially onto the needle, e.g. equipped with finger protection guards axially-extensible protective sleeves A61M5/3243

Abstract

A syringe tray, for depositing and transporting medical syringes having a hypodermic needle and a cap therefor, including a tray base. In one embodiment a raised portion in the form of a ridge extends upwardly from the plane of the tray base and includes a wall that is provided with holes in which the caps can be disposed in a predetermined manner. Cylinders for receiving the caps can also be provided on the tray base. Alternatively, the tray base itself can be provided with holes for receiving the caps.

Claims

1. A syringe tray for depositing and transporting medical syringes having a hypodermic needle and a cap therefor, including a tray base and further comprising:

means associated with said tray base and including hole means, with said caps being adapted to be disposed in said hole means in a predetermined manner, said means associated with said tray base comprising at least one raised portion that is in the form of a ridge that extends upwardly from the plane of said tray base and includes a wall that is remoted from said tray base and is provided with said hole means, said ridge having two ends and increasing in width from one end to the other, said hole means being successively disposed holes that increase in diameter from said one end of said ridge to the other, with said increase in width of said ridge corresponding to said increase in diameter of said holes.

3. A syringe tray according to claim 1, in which said hole means has a diameter that is greater than a cap diameter so as to allow movement of said cap in said hole means.

4. A syringe tray according to claim 1, in which said hole means has an edge portion that is bent upwardly or downwardly, in the axial direction of said hole means, to form a collar.

5. A syringe tray according to claim 1, which includes several hole means having differently colored adjoining regions to improve recognition of the diameters thereof.

6. A syringe tray according to claim 1, in which said ridge divides said tray base into compartments.

7. A syringe tray according to claim 1, which has a collar-like rim, with the height of said ridge corresponding to the height of said rim.

8. A syringe tray according to claim 1, in which the height of said ridge increases in conformity with the increase in diameter of said holes.

9. A syringe tray according to claim 8, in which the height of said ridge is at least as great as the diameter of said caps disposed therein.

15. A syringe tray according to claim 1, in which said means associated with said tray base is part of said tray base and forms said hole means, with said tray base being disposed at a distance from a support surface for said tray, with said distance being equal to from 1/5 of the length of a cap to greater than said length.

16. A syringe tray according to claim 15, in which said hole means comprises several holes having different diameters.

17. A syringe tray according to claim 16, in which said cap has a head with an annular bead-like portion, with said distance between said support surface and said tray base being greater than the distance of said bead-like portion from said support surface, with said cap being suspended in an essentially wedge-free manner in said holes.

18. A syringe tray according to claim 1, in which said means associated with said tray base comprises at least one raised portion that is in the form of a ridge that extends upwardly from the plane of said tray base and includes a wall that is remote from said tray base and is provided with said hole means, said means associated with said tray base also comprising not only a block-like unit that is inserted into said ridge but also cylinders that are disposed in said unit and have hole means that are aligned with said hole means of said ridge.

2. A syringe tray for depositing and transporting medical syringes having a hypodermic needle and a cap therefor, including a tray base and further comprising:

means associated with said tray base and including hole means, with said caps being adapted to be disposed in said hole means in a predetermined manner, said means associated with said tray base comprising several cylinders that project from said tray base and form said hole means, with said cylinders being disposed in a row and dividing said tray base into compartments.

10. A syringe tray according to claim 2, in which each cylinder has an open bottom end.

11. A syringe tray according to claim 2, in which each cylinder is a tubular element having a base that is fused to said tray base.

12. A syringe tray according to claim 2, which has a collar-like rim, with the height of each cylinder-corresponding to the height of said rim.

13. A syringe tray according to claim 2, in which said cylinders increase in diameter from one end of said row to the other, with the height of said cylinders increasing in conformity with the increase in diameter of said cylinders.

14. A syringe tray according to claim 2, in which the length of said cylinder is at least as great as the diameter of said caps disposed therein.